Brissot, Jeune Philosophe", p. 178 in: French Historical Studies, Volume 17, No. 1 (Spring 2001) Simon Burrows, "The Innocence of Jacques-Pierre Brissot...
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Louis de Jaucourt (redirect from Louis, Chevalier de Jaucourt)
Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt (French: [də ʒokuʁ]; 16 September 1704 – 3 February 1779) was a French scholar and the most prolific contributor to the Encyclopédie...
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piano and orchestra. Operas Le Chevalier d'industrie, opera (composed with Gustave Dugazon, on a libretto by Jacques Bins de Saint-Victor), 1804 La Folie...
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Encyclopédistes (section Le chevalier de Jaucourt)
authors belonging, in large part, to the intellectual group known as the philosophes. They promoted the advancement of science and secular thought and supported...
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opposition to social and financial reforms proposed by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot and Jacques Necker. Several events were linked to Marie Antoinette during...
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1971 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, l'apprentissage de l'humanité, Éditions sociales, 1988 La philosophie des Lumières, Éditions sociales, 1990 Chevalier de la Légion...
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common with the beaux esprits of the 17th century, as well as with the philosophes of the 18th. But it is to the latter rather than to the former period...
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Cyrano de Bergerac (section Jacques Prévot)
at the top of the great Rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques close to the Crossing" (parish of Saint-Jacques and Saint-Philippe), a short distance from the...
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Denis Diderot (1713–1784), one of the Enlightenment's most prominent philosophes, and editor-in-chief of the Encyclopédie, which sought to challenge religious...
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Voltaire (category Philosophes)
/vɔːl-/; French: [vɔltɛːʁ]), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity...
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